Hello!
October has been an exciting month for us. The university term started this month and we have seen new students joining us each week on campus and in church. We also launched our youth group, Counter Culture, this month with over 80 teens showing up for the first event! We really feel like a shift has taken place and we are seeing incredible growth in so many areas of ministry across all three of our congregations. God is good!
This month has been especially full for me. By the time the month is over I will have taught one session on our Follow One Course, preached in our new series on the Life You’re Longing For, taught one session in our Follow Two Course and led and taught two sessions on our Freedom Day.
This past Sunday I preached on Longing for Ifs and Whens. Here is the video for you to watch:
So many times in our lives we put up barriers
that are excuses or fears to stop us from moving forward in God’s Plans for our lives. I call these our Ifs and Whens. If you are stuck in life because of an If or When, I pray that this message will help you to move forward and walk in God’s abundant life for you!
Please continue to pray for me over
this month – it’s only halfway over ;o).
Could I please ask you to also pray for my monthly support? Please pray that more people join our team to reach the nations. I am so thankful for all those who give but I also know that life and seasons change for everyone and their finances. I am praying blessings over each one of you – financially, spiritually and physically!
Lots of love
Traci
Hello!
Can you believe we are already in September?! September for us as a church is always like the beginning of the year because so many things start up again – Schools, Universities, Connect Groups, Follow Courses and Our Kids Ministry always has children moving up from one class to the next.
All of our staff across our 3 congregations have been working hard to have everything ready for each of these areas of ministry. Below is a picture of our full-time and missionary staff together at one of our “looking forward” meetings.
I also met up with Jessica this past month who was one of our medical students. She is now a full fledged doctor working in a hospital just outside of London. Every time I see Jessica I am reminded how God can change a person’s life! I met her about 5 years ago when she was invited by another one of our medical students to a Connect Group. She had never read the
Bible and the best word I could use to describe her was joyless. As her friend and I started walking with her, she asked Jesus into her heart and we saw her life transform from the inside out from what seemed like a shy, timid, joyless person to someone who was active on our kids team, an active student in our campus ministry, getting baptised even though her family was against it and going to Nepal by herself on her medical placement! She is now living outside London and immediately set out to find a local church family to be a part of to make a difference in the world around her! God is good!
This weekend our Connect Groups relaunch after our Summer break. I’m so excited that we have 18 amazing groups starting this season across our West Kensington congregation and hopefully a few more over the next few months. Please pray with me as I oversee these groups and their leaders. Pray that these groups will grow not only in their own personal relationships with Christ but also that there will be a growth of love for the lost in their worlds and that they will begin reach out to them!
Thank you so much for your love prayer and support – you have no idea how much it means to me and helps me!
Lots of love
Traci
Hello!
I hope that you have been enjoying the Summer as much as I have. I had an amazing 2 weeks in Tampa raising support and visiting friends and family. I then went to Orlando for a week to join over 5000 people from our Every Nation Churches around the world for our World Conference. It was an incredible time to hear what God is doing all around the world as well as catching up with other missionaries I haven’t seen in a long time. It was a week of being encouraged and encouraging others! Here’s a recap video to show you more about the week:
You can also watch more of the conference HERE to listen to everything we experienced during the week.
After Orlando, I traveled to Georgia for a relaxing week of holiday with my parents.
Downtime was exactly what I needed because when I landed back in London we were in full moving mode with our church office as well as packing for Youth Camp.
By the time Youth Camp started I had adjusted back to London time zones and dove straight into Camp with over 40 teens from different walks of life across London. It was full on fun activities, devotional, talk and ministry times and loads of laughter! Highlights for us as leaders was seeing how some of our teens met other teens for the first time who had learning difficulties and loved and cared for them all throughout camp and to see those teens so go from having high anxiety at the beginning of camp to feeling so relaxed and like family by the final day! The best highlight of all though, was seeing one teen go from being quite anti God and confrontational at the beginning of the week to accepting Jesus as his Lord and Saviour on the final night! Here’s a short recap video of the week:
And our group picture!
Thank you so much for all of your prayers and blessings each month!
Love
Traci
